I should say, the Kelman is also really good, but I can't say I remember much about it, just that I thought the dialect was going to be barrier but it was so well-written that I ended up finding the dialect totally transparent.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 23 September 2021 16:30 (two years ago) link
every single one of his novels involved a woman who disappeared (and maybe some jazz and probably cats)
+ spaghetti. + running
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 September 2021 16:32 (two years ago) link
think the running is a later (post-2000) development, "exoticised Western pop culture and geography" is a mainstay throughout
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 23 September 2021 16:42 (two years ago) link
i know but i couldn't resist listing every murakami touchstone
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 September 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
+ fetishisation of random female body parts e.g. earlobes
― a flange is gonna come (Matt #2), Thursday, 23 September 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
+ wells
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 23 September 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link
otm
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 September 2021 22:30 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 24 September 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1995
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 24 September 2021 13:56 (two years ago) link
Pereira maintains is the one I was anticipating in the last thread! Read it earlier this year & loved it, the gradual move away from trivialities is so well controlled (& whether the concerns of the literary mag count among the trivialities is an open q) - I also really enjoyed how the prose style has a superficial similarity to Bernhard but to such different effect
― siffleur’s mom (wins), Friday, 24 September 2021 20:33 (two years ago) link